{"id":174,"date":"2017-04-12T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:37:36","slug":"permit-to-excavate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/forms\/permit-to-excavate\/","title":{"rendered":"Permit to Excavate in the Public Right of Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the work for which you are applying for a Permit to Excavate will require you to close or restrict a lane, alley, sidewalk, or parking space, you must also complete a Request for Special Use of Right of Way.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">As of May 2025, the Columbus Street Cut Ordinance was updated.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Please read the new ordinance below. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Take note of changes, especially 1)the required bond amounts and 2)the pavement restoration requirements.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/city-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Standards<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/forms\/permit-to-excavate\/permit-to-excavate-form\/\">Permit To Excavate<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ord.-No.-8-2025-Repeal-and-Replace-Columbus-Street-Cut-Ord.-No.-08-28.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ordinan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ord.-No.-8-2025-Repeal-and-Replace-Columbus-Street-Cut-Ord.-No.-08-28.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ce<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the work for which you are applying for a Permit to Excavate will require you to close or restrict a lane, alley, sidewalk, or parking space, you must also complete a Request for Special Use of Right of Way. As of May 2025, the Columbus Street Cut Ordinance was updated.\u00a0 Please read the new  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 13:14:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}